Cook hosted a million-dollar fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in Los Angeles last August. Bezos owns the Washington Post and has tussled with Trump.

'Some very big-league names' are coming to the president-elect's summit for industry leaders at Trump Tower on Wednesday. Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Apple's Tim Cook will join the pilgrimage to Trump's New York City headquarters, Yahoo News reports

So will Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg. Trump is set to be represented by tech investor Peter Thiel, a member of Facebook's board

'Amazon is getting away with murder, tax-wise, Trump said in a May interview with Sean Hannity.

The billionaire claimed Bezos was 'using The Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don't tax Amazon like they should be taxed.'

Trump also said his campaign was being flooded with calls from Post reporters asking 'ridiculous' questions.

The president-elect, who doesn't use a computer but tweets from his phone with great frequency, is set to be represented by tech investor Peter Thiel, who spoke at the GOP convention in Cleveland and is one of the few major players in the industry to back Trump.

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Thiel is on the board of Facebook with Sandberg.

Execs from Microsoft and Intel are reportedly invited, too. Recode reports that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was invited, but he's out of the country on Wednesday. The same goes for Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.

Twitter's Jack Dorsey may or may not have been invited. He told Recode he wasn't sure. Netflix, Salesforce and Dropbox executives are not attending, the tech pub said.

Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller said Monday the president-elect's office would have more information to provide on the summit tomorrow or Wednesday.

Tech mogul Peter Thiel, a Trump supporter who spoke at the GOP convention, will represent the president-elect at the meeting

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was also slated to participate, as was incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus.

President Obama had close relations with leading tech executives, including Google's Schmidt, a frequent White House visitor during his tenure.

Trump's relationship with the industry has been considerably more contentious. He called for a 'boycott' of Apple during the early days following the San Bernardino attacks in an effort to pressure the company to help the FBI unlock the rampage suspect's phone.

He also blasted the firm's manufacturing model, including production in China and other overseas nations, although Trump companies have also done manufacturing overseas.

He met last week with former vice president Al Gore, a Clinton backer and Apple board member.

Contributors identified with Internet firms gave $5.6 million to rival Hillary Clinton, according to OpenSecrets.org. Trump, by contrast, merely got $54,000.

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, is slated to participate in the meeting with tech gurus

Trump railed against Apple during the campaign, even calling for a boycott at one point. He skewered Amazon and Bezos, too

According to a study referenced in the Economist, employment in the tech sector in Democratic counties increased 35 per cent between 2000 and 2016. But in Republican counties, it dropped by nearly the same amount, 37 per cent.

Trump met at Trump Tower on Monday with former Hewlett-Packard exec Carly Fiorina.

Fiorina, a rival to Trump for the Republican nomination this year, said they spent a 'fair amount of time talking about China as probably our most important adversary.'

'We talked about the opportunity that the president elect has to literally reset things, to reset the trajectory of this economy, to reset the role of government, to reset America’s role in the world and how we're perceived in the world.'

Last week Japanese tech mogul Masayoshi Son said he would pour $50 billion in investments into new U.S. startups and committed to producing 50,000 jobs here.

Son is the CEO of SoftBank, which owns Sprint.

'We are going to invest $50 billion in the U.S. and commit to create 50,000 new jobs,' Son told reporters with Trump standing by. 'We (will) invest into the new startup companies in the United States."

The pledge would come from the $100 billion investment fund the firm has already announced in a partnership with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fun, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump told the New York Times after the election that he held telephone calls with execs from Apple and Microsoft. 'I got a call from Bill Gates, great call, we had a great conversation, I got a call from Tim Cook at Apple…' Trump said.